The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-27
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IN New ork the real estate SaheS for
the first four months of the present
year foot mp 100000 600.
1t is said that the present TO ex-Sec-
retary Manning from the treasury en-
ployes VIII be punch-bowl.
NJ. Pasteur SAYS he has treated five
hundred hydrophobia cases with his
cure this year and has lost only one.
Mrs. Langtry has had her hair cut
short, and her friends say she has lost
one-half of her beauty in consequence.
Over $50 natural-gas and oil compa-
nies have been organized in the State
OF Ohio during the past sixteen months.
1t is estimated that between $780,
100000 and 5000. 100000 viii be ex-
pended in railroad construction in the
United States during the current year,
Colonel r. G. Ingersolrs eldest
daughter is a very beautiful young
woman, and is said to have the purest
and best soprano voice in New York.
Jacob Welch, of Ritchie county,
West Virginia, found tweuty-seven
lively little squirrels in the hollow of a
tree he recently cut down in his yard.
The latest estimates place Belgium
at the head of the beer-drinking coun-
tries of Europe. The consumption per
capita is siX-tenths in excess of that of
Germany.
A Kingston lady lost bobolink re-
Gently from whooping cough The
bird was infected with the disease from
the lady's children, four of them hav-
ing it at one time.
j. Annoy Knox. of Te1aS Siftings. is
the successor of John T. Raymond in
the Communicating business He has n
lucky quarter with which he has won
over $500 this month.
Nate Salisbury, who is Buffalo Bills
partner, proposes TO introduce pop
corn in London this summer He has
ordered one hundred bushels of the
unpopped vegetable from New York
dealer.
A Boston disciple of Esculapius says
cotton stockings are the bane of New
England women, and advises the la
dies to east them OFF and go barefooted
rather than wear an article that des-
troys them with rheumatism and neu-
ralgia.
1t is whispered that a watch-factory
girl asked a member of the Boston city
council who was accompanying the
queen on an excursion, how long he
had been in this country, and whether
his home in the Sandwich isles resem-
bled Boston.
Joseph X. Shultz, well-known
farmer of Lancaster county. Pa, has
just completed sales of his tobacco
crop, showing a total yield of $500 per
acre for last year The census makes
Lancaster the richest agricultural
county in the Union.
Mrs. Grant has just received from
Charles l.. Webster check for $33,-
3S4.53 as additional profits on the sale
of General Grants Memoirs She
has thus received to date total of
1894, 1898. The financial success of
Grants book is unprecedented in the
history of literature.
The telephone wire between Brus-
sells and Paris was put to fraternal
use recently by the advantage of a mi
crophoue. The Partisan people, being
invited to listen to band of music in
Brussels, heard over the wire French
melody, and heard it so distinctly that
not note was missed.
A New Lisbon (O) girl. while dis
| robing recently, was pulling off hel
stocking with considerable exertion,
as her foot was damp. 1t came off un
expectedly, and her hand was released
with such sudden force that it struck
| her under the chin and caused her Il
bite her tongue nearly in two.
They have found a bottomless pit OF
the line of the Carthage and Adiron
dack railway, New York, into which
| they have dumped three hundred car
loads of stone and gravel. No sooner
do they get the hole filled up and the
roadbed apparently safe than tn,
whole thing disappears under water.
Near Oakville, w T., is the burn
stump of cedar tree, probably the
| largest on record. 1t is hollow shell
80 feet high, 81 feet in circumference,
one foot from the ground; 73 feet 2.
feet from the ground, and "a feet in
ches six feet from the ground, TIL,
| cavity is % feet at its largest diameter
A little grammar found in an ole
| garret in Portsmouth, n. H., has al
illustration representing the difference
between the active. passive, and neute
verbs. 1t is picture of father whip
| ping his boy. The father is active, tn
boy is passive, and the mother, sitting
| by herself on stool looking on, bu
doing nothing, is neuter.
Diplomatic circles in Washington
are gossiping about what is said to b.
| slight TO Prince Leopold of German,
by the United States Government
The Prince did not 90 to Washington
as he had intended, and it is said tina
the cause of his change of plan lay il
the fact that the Government took n
notice of his presence in this country
Every new acquaintance is worth
dollar to newspaper reporter. III
may not be able to find anyone wht
would give him a dollar for some o
the men he meets, but some day some
thing happens, and then the reporte
realizes that il is worth n good dea
more than dollar to him to have som
acquaintance with the man who know
all about it.
A very remarkable operation ha
just been performed by Mr.. Keetley
at the West London hospital. A chill
was brought in having a large mol
covering nearly the whole of its cheek
He transplanted the mole by exchange
That is, he removed the mole from tn
cheek to the arm and planted fes
from the arm on the cheek. Every
thing succeeded perfectly.
Several years ago few deer wer
let loose on the mountains east of Ber
nington, and since that an effort ha
1 l.. g.. 81 l.. :
, ding anyone to kill deer in Vermont
The result is that here and ther
throughout the State deer are seer
, and as the law has three years yet t
, run it is quite likely that the Gree
mountains may in time be well stocked
A young man who had been hangin
, around Washington trying to get
81 200 clerkship till his money was a
gone, recently received an offer {
$40 a month to go to Birmingham
Ala, as tally clerk. a friend loane
him 800 to pay his board bill and q
? out of town with, and he went. In
2 few DAYS his s.boss" at Birmingham
loaned him money to buy a lot of Ian
( with, and a week later he sold it fo
! upward of $1,000 advance.
According to an observing Ne
York reporter the red-eared Graz
among the chorus girls in burlesqu
! and comic operas is over. Taking th
! idea from Bernhardt, the small ones
] the stage painted their ears brigf
|. pink Their new affectation is th
baby stare. 1t takes the place of th
roguish glance and the shy drooI
The operator of pair of eyes open
them to their widest, fixes them direc
ly upon man in the front row, an
calmly keeps them there as long q
circumstances viii permit. Neithe
3 ogle or wink is recognized by the COZ
/ orbs thus employed in the infantile ac
: They seem aware of nothing beyoH